Australian bird-cage swimmer in tiger shark attack - video

Video of Shaun Harrington Diving With Tiger Shark in Tiny Birdcage | Close Encounter On VIDEO

IT PROBABLY seemed like a good idea at the time. But when Australian fisherman Shaun Harrington decided to jump into the ocean next to a Tiger shark with only a small bird cage for protection, the "lark" almost proved deadly.

Harrington, 27, was fishing off the Gold Coast with his twin brother Dean, when they decided to film some "extreme cage diving", says Live Leak. They didn't have a shark cage, so Shaun improvised with a flimsy bird cage he happened to have onboard.

All was going well until a three-metre tiger shark – one of the most aggressive species – exploded out of the water and made straight for Harrington's legs. "I thought I was going to die," Harrington said. "We were just having fun but it turned crazy."